Oracle Patents Declared Invalid in Android Dispute?

According to a report, the Patent Office have declared 24 Oracle claims invalid.

According to a report by H Online, the US Patent Office and
Trademark Office has provisionally declared 24 of Oracle’s claims
against Google’s Android, as being invalid based on ‘prior art.’
The USPTO based this decision on a patent described as ‘Computer system security
method and apparatus for creating and using program authorization
information data structures,’ which was granted in 1994, before Sun
filed its Java patent application. The patent office also cited two
1996 publications as evidence that Sun’s method for protecting
applications, was anticipated by prior art. This decision means
that five of the seven patents Oracle claims the Android OS
infringed upon, have been either partially or fully invalidated,
although Oracle do now have the option of appealing.

The H Online report claims that this may cause the lawsuit
against Google to be postponed, allowing all the patents to be
fully examined.